This publication highlights how public–private partnerships (PPPs) can be effective to meet Asia's growing infrastructure needs. It shows how governments and their development partners can use PPPs to promote more inclusive and sustainable growth. The study finds that successful PPP projects are predicated on well-designed contracts, a stable economy, good governance and sound regulations, and a high level of institutional capacity to handle PPPs. It is the result of a collaboration betwee...

This textbook provides the fundamental of children’s critical care from a European perspective. It offers a valuable guide for beginners as well as for clinicians working in Intensive Care and allied professionals including the role of an ICU in a modern children’s hospital, specific situations and clinical practice achievements including techniques and the more appropriate therapies to be applied in different conditions. A section is devoted to specific organs – lung, heart and circulatio...

Providing the inside track on how the experts approach and deal with real-life clinical scenarios, Challenging Concepts in Paediatric Critical Care explores eighteen common, complex and often contentious topics seen in hospitals, high dependency units, and PICU's worldwide. These include cases on 'Paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome', 'Traumatic brain injury', and 'Safeguarding children in paediatric intensive care'. With a case-based approach, complex patient presentat...

This book represents an invaluable resource for professionals for the diagnosis and treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI) in children and how to select and deliver the appropriate form of renal replacement therapy (RRT). Experts from all over the globe have come together to share their wide experience in the field of Critical Care Nephrology in children.Paediatric critical care nephrology is a complex and highly specialised field, presenting challenges and management strategies th...